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Friday, August 10, 2012

One of the most famous Mac OS X Text-editors for coders, Textmate went open source in its second incarnation. Being in Alpha since December 2011, Macromates deciding to open source it and make it available to the community for free under a GPL3 License.
Macromates hopes to spark interest in free projects as well as in commercial ones with the possibility of a upcoming commercial useable license.

"I am also a pragmatist and realize that parts of the TextMate code base is useful for other (non-free) applications, so I may later move to a less restrictive license, as is currently the case with the bundles. For now, please get in touch with us if there are subsets of the code base you wish to use for non-free software, and we might be able to work something out." (Source)

It is available on GitHub and you can download and compile it yourself. The toolchain required is quite extensive and if you run into the error:

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Usually i stay out of the legal battle coverage, hate the game not the player. But this document which Apple brought up in court is really interesting. It proves Samsung improved the UI of their smartphones by studying and copying iOS. If this is illegal or even morally wrong i wont say, i just take it as Samsung acknowledging the quality of iOS.

Monday, August 6, 2012

Round about 2 months after the first developer preview of iOS 6 Apple released the new build 10A5376e aka Beta 4. It seems the dedicated YouTube App was removed so for now you have to use Safari to watch YouTube (something i did already for a while); i guess Google soon gonna publish a dedicated YouTube and Google Maps App. As always Apple also updated Xcode and the Apple TV Firmware. Stay tuned for more!